Senior Enterprise Architect, Finance & Corporate Functions

M&T Bank; Clanton (AL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 233,000; Full time

Job summary

M&T Bank seeks an experienced Enterprise Architect to lead Corporate Functions architecture, with emphasis on Finance and shared-services platforms, shaping roadmaps, data and integration patterns, and governance across ERP, EPM, GL, treasury, and related Oracle products.

The role drives modernization efforts, partners with Finance, HR, Procurement, Legal, and Risk, and aligns technology investments with business priorities and regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 7 years of relevant work experience, or in lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 11 years of higher education and/or relevant work experience.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in enterprise, domain, solution, application, or data architecture, including at least 5 years supporting Finance or Corporate Functions platforms.
• Experience architecting enterprise resource planning, enterprise performance management, general ledger, treasury, financial reporting, procurement, Human Resources, or related enterprise platforms within a complex, regulated organization.
• Demonstrated experience developing capability models, target-state architectures, reference patterns, roadmaps, and transition plans.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve Corporate Functions architecture strategies and roadmaps aligned with business priorities, regulatory obligations, enterprise standards, and the bank’s technology direction.
• Maintain target-state architectures for Finance capabilities and platforms, including ERP, ERP, PM, GL, AP/AR, consolidation, treasury, tax, FP&A, financial close and reporting, and related Oracle Financials products.
• Provide supporting architecture leadership for Human Capital Management, source-to-pay, procurement, travel and expense, Enterprise Risk, Legal, Facilities, and other corporate shared services.
• Guide the modernization of Oracle Financials and related corporate platforms, including SaaS adoption, upgrades, integration, data conversion, controls, and retirement of redundant capabilities.
• Translate CFO and Corporate Functions priorities into capability, data, application, integration, and investment roadmaps.
• Define cross-platform patterns for master and reference data, identity, segregation of duties, controls automation, records retention, regulatory reporting, and authoritative data sources.
• Align technology investment, consumption, and cost transparency with Finance and enterprise portfolio decisions, including appropriate financial operations practices.
• Partner with Finance, Human Resources, Procurement, Enterprise Risk, Tax, Legal, Facilities, data, cybersecurity, technology, risk, and compliance stakeholders to resolve cross-domain dependencies and sequencing decisions.
• Evaluate vendor and platform options for enterprise fit, functional coverage, integration, cost, resilience, third-party risk, and the avoidance of unnecessary duplication.
• Provide architecture governance and implementation oversight through delivery and lifecycle checkpoints while maintaining the distinction between enterprise architecture and day-to-day solution delivery.

Job description

M&T Bank seeks an experienced Enterprise Architect to lead Corporate Functions architecture, with emphasis on Finance and shared-services platforms, shaping roadmaps, data and integration patterns, and governance across ERP, EPM, GL, treasury, and related Oracle products.

The role drives modernization efforts, partners with Finance, HR, Procurement, Legal, and Risk, and aligns technology investments with business priorities and regulatory requirements.